Sentences with phrase «agreement by raising your interest rates»

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In Japan, the Central Bank said Thursday morning it was keeping its rates unchanged and the People's Bank of China raised its short - term interest rate by 10 basis points on both medium - term lending facility loans and its open market operation reverse repurchase agreements.

Instead, when the Fed makes its first rate hike — something that probably won't happen until at least September - 2015 — it will do so by 1) raising the interest rate paid on bank reserves, 2) increasing the amount that it pays to borrow money via Reverse Repurchase agreements, and 3) boosting the rate that it offers to financial institutions for term deposits.

Since the EU referendum in June 2016, the country has witnessed a series of defining political and financial shifts: David Cameron's resignation as Prime Minister and Theresa May's appointment as his successor; interest rates being cut to a record - low 0.25 % before then being raised back to 0.5 %; Article 50 being issued and Brexit negotiations officially commencing; a snap General Election in which the Conservative Party lost its majority, leading to the Tories entering into a confidence and supply agreement with Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party; and not one but two Budget announcements delivered by the Chancellor Philip Hammond in 2017.